The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 20, 1916, Page 9

: thg Leader, whilé ‘not yet complete, * - bring Frazier’s vote up over 40,000 and i bined . vote of opponents of 4089, with-a T o e Gt ang e naman. Later Count Gives Frazier 40,000 Votes; - precinets maverty swent g Gourt Candidates’ Lead Much Increased . precincts. ' materially = swell - the majorities: of the Nompartisan League SR Fragh it ;‘;“a‘;‘g:t‘;:;tn th:eg“fi?'fg sgen(;mtrhy’l'hi . In the race for the Republican nomin- cader - last . w Cpu 2 the MOBE: iyt 5t S S B e L e (2 ohnson : \g foal, by anybody and this week can give even . 7€V figures.greatly increase the League |\ o q,4(: (Teague) . _ o8 eoooefeme i candidates’ lead. Johmson, high League wann' (Incumbent) .- Several hundred precincts have been . candidate in _the vote, is now 15,000 Anderson (Incumbent) better figures.. - - missing from the totals for the candi- ~votes ahead “of “the high man ‘of the Stutsman (Incumbent) present ‘incurbents. The figures are: dates for the supreme bench, but most " : of :these have now ' come’ in and’ the Leader’s - figures .on judges “this week contain 5000 to 7000 more :votes : than the ' last totals . printed. The lowest League candidate has beaten the ‘highest of the “opposition’, over ‘4000 yotes in - the supreme court race, ‘and Robinson; the high man running with the League . -. indorsement,. béat: the highest voté ‘of - the present incumbents . over .8000° votes. The figures, not yet complete, follow: : - Robinson (League) __ ‘ Birdzell '(League)- .. Grace (League) - Burke (incumbent) Fisk (incumbent) .. Spaulding ... Goss’ (incumbent) Adam§o_!i'- S T T The high’ six of these-run if election. °. ¢ _ In the race for the Republican nom-. ination for governor the new totals of * ------- 68: - 'The. picture shoys -one of the signs -which’ the League boosters at-Fairdale, wieee-21,881 - Walsh county, used to get votes for the League ticket in the primaries. A picnic ~ 12,522~ at Fairdale‘on June-21-was addressed by J:Arthur’ Williams, League speakrr ‘and the ‘fall | organizer, who addressed nearly three hundred farmers. ' On®his réturn toward 2 “Grand Forks' from: Fairdale the same day he was halted by 40 farmers who stood -on the steps of the schoolhouse in-Norton township and ‘would ot let him pass until he had addressed them on'the -issues of the campaign and the work of the League. Writing of the Fairdale meeting A. 'B. Martin adds these words: - “I sincerely feel . that every farmer in North Dakota owes'a debt of ‘gratitude to A. C. Townley.,” . - give him a clear majority over the com- BURNETT A GAME LOSER plurality over Burdick, his nearest con- . 7 (Nkkote—The following letter tender, of 16,822. The figures follow: e League in Traill county for the legislature but who refused the indorsement Pragiep-il o e iy . 40,001 and jumped into the gang papers with denunciations of the farmers’-organ- : Burdick : .= 23,179 © ization. He ran for the legislature against the candidate the Traill county 9,776 members of the League indorsed in his place and he was beaten by a two to oo 2,957 one vote. He has a sense of humor, however, as the following letter shows.) _ Total vote ... .. 75,913 Editor Nonpartisan Leader:- Salt River Station, No. 23, June 30. More precincts are missing on the nonpartisan $chool ballot than in the case of any other office. The Leader’s figures on this now are: Macdonald, indorsed’ by League....45,162 Hoover : it 25,340 We met the enemy and we are his. ~ “Important business” on the 28th instant. caused me to take a hurried trip up “Salt river” to-this station. ' The “fishing is good, weather fine and the sport elegant. I may locate here per- manently. Giye my best regards and congratulations to the boys upon_their _ - magnificent victory. Very sincerely yours, W. J. BURNETT. Golden Valley Grand Forks . 1[13,686/8 957]48,544122,079[58 20,001 is from the man who 'wés'indprséd by 'the > - Vate by Counties on Republican State Nominees V2,282(37,290126, 799157 297 A2 A4S The totals by counties and for thdé ; state can be seen in the accompanyin; table, giving the Leader’s latest co pilation of the votes in the Republicat primaries. { :Later returns on the results in th legislative districts failed to change any,: of the fesults announced by the Leadei last week except in one case. First reports were that the League had nom<?! | 21 i | inated all ‘three men indorsed for thd " house ' in District 16, but later returng ~show "A. M. Hemerlin, - one "of thos’z " indorsed on ‘the - Republican ticket, los! out: " The official count for this district, which is composed of Steele and Griggs counties, is* as follows,. three to be nominated: TN A E. W. Everson (League), 1112 With this change figured in the League has nominated 86 candidates for. ' _.the -lower-house and lo's@_'."éh}‘y 18, g FALLING INTO LINE "« | Morton county has recently seen tha close’ of one of the most . spirited primary campaigns on record. Since iff * Porter Kimball (League), 955; Lathruy defeating ' League man, '669; Baldwing | . 598; ‘Hemerlin (League),. 575. t { | . is. over: it " can -also - be observed. that ' among the losing candidates there'is g .feeling . of discontéritment and 'a tends enicy to revolt at the results.. The News does mot ‘believe® that such conditién ig ‘warrantéd and' we cannot see that any, good . will_come out of such”spirit. > ANl participated ‘in the - campaign under exactly . the ‘same .conditions and ‘'thé winner is entitled to the credit which he - «gained by winning: unless his campaign {'méthods _can "be attacked.;” Théd writer has watched the campaign closely ‘and we do not believe that any candidate or set of candidates have campaigned any, differently than the others. ¥ Politics is a sort of a gambling game and unless a2 man is willing to lose he should not enter political activities as & candidate. The majority of the voters look upon the situation as the Newsd does, we believe—MANDAN NEWS. - 528] 849 851/ A 811} 1004 “‘7~ |